HR-XML
Was working on resume this morning when I ran across something cool called the Human Resource XML Consortium. This is one of the best uses of web services and XML standardization outside use specifically in the tech realm.

You see, my resume is really written in XML. I did that about 4 years ago so that I could write a few XSLT sheets to export the real resume. My experience crosses so many areas, so its really hard to show specifically to the human resource officer who is going to get my resume I know exactly what they need, simply because many of them don’t understand the technology as well as the developers I would be working for in most cases. With this method I can filter and sort specific areas and use different versions of the text so I can match to each specific case as best as possible. All I have to do is tweak a few sorts and xpath queries in the xslt and out comes a specific resume for someone. The other main goal was to be able to export my resume to different formats like XHTML, Text, and an XML schema for converting to PDF (and even someday Word XML and OpenDoc).

What is of interest to me is that the HR-XML guys have come up with a standardized XML scheme for resumes (which happens to be fairly similar to my resume). Though, once its in that format, it conforms to everything published by the HR-XML and when everyone starts using all the HR interchange formats (which from the sponsors might already be true), then I’ll be slightly over the curve. That is if it the general public picks up on it, which I can’t see why not :-)

I’ll release the code that makes this possible later. I think that HR-XML has really got something here.

Update:
“greencrab” (with a nasa.gov ip even :-P) else emailed me about http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/. It’s got Debian packages on apt-get even. Pretty neat stuff.

FlyVideo3000 Support
I wrote a patch for the Linux kernel to support the $18 FlyVideo3000 NTSC video capture card for video4linux. Nothing big but its my first kernel patch I got to send in so I’m excited. Really there isn’t any code, just adding a definition but still, got to start somewhere. See it here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115011638432595&w=2

Mono turns 5 years old!
It’s simply amazing how far Mono has evolved over the years. From its early days in 2001 when the annoucments of what the guys over at Ximian became public knowledge, its simply amazing to see how many people have joined in. This project is massive now. Well over 3 millions lines of code.

Here are some interesting links in Mono history: